It shall be this one's duty to offer recipes and menus. These will be easy to follow, and tested to be good enough that a slave would allow his Master to serve it to Master's Guests and reflect only the best of his Master.
For far worse than Master's anger is Master's disappointment.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

BLT Macaroni Salad To honor the “Annual Reminders”

Just
in time for the fourth of July picnics take a moment and honor one of
the first annual demonstrations for LGBT rights in the country, 1965!

What
could be more American than a BLT? How about a BLT salad? Easy and
unexpected.

Ingredients:

1
pound elbow macaroni

1
cup mayonnaise

1
teaspoon garlic powder

1
teaspoon salt

½
teaspoon black pepper

8
slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

1
cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half

1½
cups coarsely chopped baby spinach

What To Do:

Cook
macaroni according to package directions. Drain and let cool.

As
that cooks fry up the bacon and let drain on paper towels.

Cut
the tomatoes in half.

With
a fork, combine mayonnaise, garlic, salt, and pepper with the
spinach. Blend until smooth.

Cut up the crisp bacon into less than 1 inch pieces.

Pour over pasta and
stir in the tomatoes; mix well, cover and refrigerate until ready to
serve.

Note

If it's a bit drier than you like after
refrigeration, try mixing in some
fat free plain Greek style yogurt!

Craig
Rodwell conceived of the event following a picket at the White House
on April 17, 1965.

He
wanted a picket line to go up on the Fourth of July at Independence
Hall. The name of the event was selected to remind the American
people that a substantial number of American citizens were denied the
rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
enumerated in the United States Declaration of Independence.

He
organized members of the New York City and Washington, D.C., chapters
of the Mattachine Society, Philadelphia's Janus Society and the New
York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, underthecollective
name East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO).

With
Rodwell spearheading the effort, ECHO put together the first Reminder
picket in just over two months. Thirty-nine
peopleattended
the first picket, including veteran activists Frank
Kameny and Barbara Gittings.

The
Reminders were held each year from 1965 until 1969, with the final
picket taking place shortly after the June 28 Stonewall riots. While
never large crowds, still their impact was making a difference.

Following
the 1969
Annual Reminder,
the younger and more radical participants, felt the time for silent
picketing had passed.

They
decided to move the demonstration from July 4 in Philadelphia to the
last weekend in June in New York City, as well as proposing to "other
organizations throughout the country... suggest(ing) that they hold
parallel demonstrations on that day" to commemorate the
Stonewall riot. The newly located event in New York City became known
as Christopher
Street Liberation Day. Today it is simply called PRIDE.

From
a leaflet that was handed out at the Annual Reminder:

Because
the homosexual American citizen finds himself denied many of the
unique and special features of American life that are guaranteed by
the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of
Rights.

….he
is being denied many of the liberties and freedoms guaranteed by
those documents and enjoyed, without second thought, by his fellow
American citizens.

Homosexual
American citizens have also petitioned both state and Federal
governments to re-examine many of the adverse policies facing
them—and those governments have ignored them or "answered only
by repeated injury."

It
may seem difficult to understand how radical these statement were at
the time. We should be honored that these individuals risk
everything. Just to be seen in public identified as “homosexual”
invited beatings, arrests, loss of employment, loss of housing, loss
of family.

They
braved being spit on and stared at like animals in a zoo. They did
this so that we can enjoy many of the same citizenship rights as our
fellow countryman and women. We had to fight for rights that had
been set forth in the Declaration of Independence, over 200 years
ago.